Debt waiver scheme faces flak from panel on naxalism

Oineetom Ojah
Posted: Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 at 2218 hrs IST
Updated: Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 at 2218 hrs IST

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New Delhi, Jun 24: Act remains an act on paper in much of rural India, the panel stated that Naxalites in their areas of presence have ensured payment of decent wage rates, though these rates are not in line with the statutory minimum wage rates. The rates they have ensured are sometimes higher and sometimes lower than the statutory rate.

In fact, the naxalites have determined fair wages for jobs like washing clothes, pots making and tending cattle. After the government preferred to ignore the exploitation of the adivasi labourers involved in picking tendu leaf, the Naxalites ensured increases in the rate of payment for picking of tendu leaf which is used for rolling beedis, in the forest areas of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Maharashtra, and Jharkhand. ...

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